Tag: Advertising
Information wants to get paid.
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Suckage begins here: why search engines now prioritize advertising over good UX
In the dying stages of innovation, companies at the top of the heap use their market power to maintain their high profits.
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The dogs won’t eat it
My father used to tell this story to his project management students.
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The Whims
One of my first professional jobs was at a tiny startup ad agency in Washington, DC. The owner was new to the business and made the mistake of hiring a college buddy as his creative…
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A modest proposal
It is illegal to make false claims in a TV or radio commercial unless you are running for political office.
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An e-mail from Chip Kidd
I’ll never forget the day Chip Kidd sent me an e-mail. Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys, the book that does for design school what Nathaniel West’s Day of the Locust did for Hollywood.…
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Stick out your tongue
While employed at a famous New York advertising agency twenty years ago, a partner and I created a TV commercial touting an over-the-counter medicine client’s revolutionary new cold and flu remedy for young children. Only…
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Lost, Ffffound, and Clusterflocked
The Deck welcomes Ffffound.com and Clusterflock.
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All Bits on Deck!
We’re as pleased as pale punch to welcome web designer, CSS whiz, microformats monger, icon designer, outstanding public speaker, and best-selling CSS-design-book author Dan Cederholm and his freshly redesigned SimpleBits site to The Deck, our…
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Facebook and your privacy
Months after geeks who hate walled gardens hailed Facebook as the great exception, Facebook announces that it is wholesaling our privacy to any turdball with a dirty nickel to spend. So what else is new?
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Deck deal
We have a slot open for November in The Deck, our advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals. Give us a holler if you can pull the trigger quick and we’ll make a…
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The Deck turns 21
Content wants to be free, but content providers want three squares a day.
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What is Art Direction (No. 9)
A provocative poster deconstructed. How art direction communicates wordlessly, and how it differs from design. Disabled veterans, Gap ads, and James Gandolfini.
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ALA 230: Make the logo smaller
Learn to love whitespace and think intuitively about web standards.
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Kottke Joins The Deck
Everyone’s favorite blogger joins The Deck, our targeted ad network for creative, web, and design professionals.
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Happy Cog redesigns Advertising Age
From head lamps to tail fins.